accountability on gender in humanitarian system in south...

Accountability on

Gender in

Humanitarian

System in South

Sudan

Catalysing change

• In January 2014, the

IASC Reference

Group on Gender and

Humanitarian Action

issued a Gender Alert

for South Sudan.

• HCT in South Sudan

expressed their

commitments on

gender equality

programming .

Accountability....Cluster lead agencies including

Cluster Coordinators develop

cluster gender policies, cluster

gender commitments with verifiable

checklists including indicators,

assign gender focal points for the

cluster and deliver on gender

related policies.

CLUSTER GENDER FOCAL POINT GROUP

FROM 2014... SOUTH SUDAN

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE FACED

LOTS OF CHALLENGES IN GENDER

MAINSTREAMING BUT MADE SOME

PROGRESS

GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE

HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OVERVIEW 2016 –Food Security and Livelihoods section ..page 21

• Affected People

• Recognises that female headed households are

significantly more likely to be food insecure and

to have malnourished child/children than a male

headed one.

GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE HUMANITARIAN

RESPONSE PLAN 2016 – Food Security and Livelihoods

section ..page 19

Number of people

in need and their

specific needs

disaggregated

by sex and age

Promoting Quality Programming

Talks about (1) ensuring that risks such as forced

recruitment of children and GBV are prevented when

large populations gather to receive food assistance; and

(2) enabling the most marginalized and vulnerable

groups to access assistance.

Aim to support National NGOs to build capacity on cross-

cutting issues.

GENDER AND PROTECTION

GENDER PROTECTION

Institutionalising GENDER in Emergencies:

Bridging Policy and Practice in the

Humanitarian System

September 2015 - Feb 2017

Cluster Gender Focal Point Group

Gender Analysis

Com-muniqu

esTraining

Case Study

Account

-ability

coordination

Why have a Cluster Accountability

Monitoring Tool?

• To see if Humanitarian Clusters / technical

coordination groups support gender

accountability of humanitarian actors

• To see if coordination meetings pool

resources, and share best practices &

knowledge on gender.

• focus on a self-assessment rather than a

checklist - can be adaptable to context.

Application of the tool: Who?

• This tool is to be used by cluster leads and co-

leads at field- operations level or technical

working groups. It provides guidance to

individual agencies on how to contribute to the

achievements of shared gendered accountability

within a cluster or working group setting.

The measures 1-5

1. Quality gender analysis is available and used to

inform planning, implementation and monitoring.

2. Gender-responsive strategic planning documents

shape adequate prioritisation and set out member

agencies' roles

3. Contextualised minimum gender commitments

are endorsed and are coherently implemented

4. Adequate gendered competency of agency

expertise and staff is identified and strategically

coordinated

5. Inclusive and participatory cluster/sector meetings

generate space for discussing and addressing gender

concerns

The measures 6-10

6. Learning spaces on gender-responsive

implementation are available and enable improved

implementation through action-learning

7. Gender-responsive cross-cluster/sector coordination

mechanisms address cross-cutting issues holistically

8. Continuous review and adaptation of ways of

working with affected populations increases levels of

transparency and participation of affected women and

men

9. Recurrent monitoring of the IASC and/or ECHO

Gender and Age Marker improves gender

mainstreaming and targeted action at project level

10. Enhancement of linkages between humanitarian

and development interventions contribute to reduce

structural barriers to gender equality

Key elements & Examples of Effective

practice

Key Elements: Lays out what cluster/sector leads should

expect from this accountability measure and areas for

prioritised attention. Identifies elements that contribute to

facilitate, coordinate and generate space for gender

responsive actions to take place within a cluster/sector.

Examples of Effective Practice: Explains what this

measure could look like and provides elements to

contrast their own cluster/sector performance against.

This is an example and NOT an exhaustive list. These

are not indicators!

Rating, description & follow up

actions

Tool provides a colour rating from the dropdown menu.

50-100 words substantiates a rating with positive

examples, learning and any identified gap(s). This

forms a useful monitoring tool.

Relevant actions for the next reporting period, including

person responsible (cluster agency/person), timeline and

resources required.

Quarterly follow-up against the sheet, noting support of

cluster/agency gender experts, aiming to improve in

areas weak and unsatisfactory.

The rating in the dropdown menu

RatingColour Code

Explanation

Very Good

Dark Green

Exemplary and outstanding implementation of measure & innovative best practices for replication in other sectors

Good GreenFull implementation of measure & comprehensive sector coordination

Unsatisfactory

YellowSome elements of measure in place & limited sector coordination (improvements required)

Weak RedNo aspects of the measure in place

SAMPLE...

• AF 2.0 30.08.xlsx

AF 2.0 30.08.xlsx

Please do look at the 10 measures.

Reflect and try to assess your cluster.

From there, decide on the top 3 measures

that this cluster will work on for the year.

WHEN?

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